Alpine Beer Company McIlhenneys Irish Red

Brewed by Alpine Beer Company (CA)
Style: Irish Ale
Alpine, California USA

Name: Mcilhenney’s Irish Red
Date: 05/04/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear red, thin tan head, light sweet carmel malt aroma, rich dry malt flavor that’s followed by a touch of sweetness, light bitter finish,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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650 mL bottle. Clear red with fizzy white head. Malty caramel and some what fruity aroma. Sticky palate. Big malty taste with a caramel taste and bready finish.

A good go-to beer with some food. Much better on draft - super malty with a touch of hops to back it up. Excellent beer, a must try...nothing too spectacular - but still a great red!!!

Pours a deep, dark cherry wood color w/ medium sized, semi creamy froth and some spattering. Head retention is good and finally rests revealing a full canopy and a thick, sticky ring. Aroma is very malty w/ sweet biscuits and cocoa. Medium nectar w/ creamy residual effers. Big mildly sweet malts w/ a defined roast component. Sweet biscuits, cocoa, brown cakebread, leather, coffee bean, citrus rind. The finish is bittered mildly.

22oz bottle poured a clear light brownish red color with almost no head at all. The aroma was nutty caramel malts and some yeast esters. Taste was all malt with a big nutty flavor to it. No real hop bitterness or flavor at all and a small amount of alcohol warmth in the finish. Not a bad beer just not my style at all.

Nice dark red on pour with a large, off-white head that diminished quickly. Although delicious, aroma and flavor were modest. Aroma and flavor were similar with malt, caramel, hops, cherries, and carbonation. Very well balanced, the aroma and flavor did not grab me and announce themselves. This Irish Ale would make for a great daily drinking beer if it were available in my area.

Bottle from cbkschubert; nose of caramel, , brown sugar, and some fruitiness; copper-red with sa decent biege head that quickly fades; flavor has caramel, roastiness, a raisin note, and some faint hop bitterness.

22 oz bomber purchase Oct. ’06 in Alpine consumed 02/05/07. Poured out clear deep copper with thin off white head. The aroma has sweet malty caramel and lightly roasted malts along with a light smattering of hops. The flavor is much like the aroma with sweet caramelized malts, roasted malts and light hints of vague hoppiness. It ends with less sweet roasted malts. Nice malty brew.